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US History: An Economic Perspective

What is mercantilism? How did economics contribute to rising tensions between the North and the South in the years before the Civil War? What caused the Great Depression? In this video course designed specifically to help students study for the AP US History exam and SAT Subject Test, Professor Brian Domitrovich of Sam Houston State University explains key events in US economic history and surveys different (and sometimes opposing) viewpoints on...

Keywords:: consumer economy, gilded age, great depression, globalization, economic history, american history, history, james madison, economics, fdr, mercantilism, franklin roosevelt, american revolution, interstate commerce, adam smith, federal reserve, bank of the united states, articles of confederation, colony, alexander hamilton, compromise of 1850, marshall plan, bretton woods, big business, commerce clause, andrew carnegie, colonial, civil war, deindustrialization, andrew jackson